Veii Quotes & Sayings

I've had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can't quite make out what it is. It takes time. — Charles Bukowski

Destiny had decreed that the Gauls were still to feel the true meaning of Roman valor, for when the raiders started on their mission Rome's lucky star led them to Ardea, where Camillus was living in exile, more grieved by the misfortunes of his country than by his own. Growing, as he felt, old and useless, filled with resentment against gods and men, he was asking in the bitterness of his heart where now were the men who had stormed Veii and Falerii - the men whose courage in every fight had been greater even than their success, when suddenly he heard the news that a Gallic army was near. The men of Ardea, he knew, were in anxious consultation, and it had not been his custom to assist at their deliberations; but now, like a man inspired, he burst into the Council chamber. — Livy

Time, which gnaws and diminisheth all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality, done to a man of reason, doth grow continually by his generous thinking of it and remembering it. — Francois Rabelais

So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret over here. — Imogen Heap

The night sky made her feel infinite before she knew the word. — Thomm Quackenbush

I did as much as I could: raising chickens, pushing an ice-cream cart, bagging walnuts, driving a tractor on a beet farm, working on the railroad. I think this eclectic career helped me a lot in life. — Charles R. Schwab

My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman who brought no good to anyone, to murder whom would pardon forty sins, who sucked the lifeblood of the poor, and you call that a crime ? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Why me?"
"Because when you touched me, I had to have more. — Chanel Cleeton

More than two thousand five hundred years ago. We have no way of knowing who painted this wall, but he speaks to us across all those centuries. Veii may have been defeated, but the spirit of these people speaks to us and triumphs over time. — Lillian Marek

For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most of my literary life the difference between throwing something in the trash and publishing it was imperceptible... — Rebecca Solnit

Whites already know blacks are stupid, violent, destructive apelike creatures. That is why Whites move away from them
always. — Alex Linder

It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create. — J. M. W. Turner